Can you offer your information to help me with the larger picture? women losing out?

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I was thinking the other day out of all the people i know who have lost thier jobs recently they have all been women and all office based jobs from accountacy to pa and office based customer services.

im interested to know if you or anyone you know has lost their jobs can you say how many people and if they were male or female? also what job they did if you dont mind.

im just very concerened that they all seem in my experience at least to be women who have lost out, im wondering if you lot can show me any different.

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4 women, 1 accountancy (low level), 1 PA, 2 office based customer services

Hmmm, you may be on to something... I know two buyers who have lost jobs and an admin assistant...

Is it because they are women with family commitmentbs (young kids) or that employers are worried about pregnancy? I mean, coul these be big concerns for them?

It was first mostly men who lost their jobs fairly early on (2008-ish) in the construction industry. Now it does seem mostly female in the public sector jobs as you point out. In my office there's been 2 women, 1 man and a few more on early retiredment/didn't come back from maternity leave.

I know 3.

All men, one being my dp. All from the IT industry.

Don't know any women who have lost their jobs.

maybe im wrong then!

I know mainly men, a man in IT (so aPixie, sounds like that industry has really been hit hard) and I also have a couple of friends whose husbands can't find work (although that is a longer-term problem, they are not that flexible either). I actually haven't got any female friends or aquaintances who have been made redundant, in some instances, the women have gone to work when the man has lost their job (having been SAHM's before that). But anecdotal data won't really tell you much, the statistics say it better really about which industries are losing out.

I think there are more women in the public sector so more likely to take the brunt of upcoming cuts.

I know of 3 people - all women, one in an FE college admin, two in axed quangos (although in at least one of those there were more men than women in the office).

i had to go to work full time when my dp was sacked nothing to do with injury and more to do with him watching porn for 3 whilst on overtime.

fucking idiot

One of my friends works in a nursery that is having to close because of the single funding formula and other things that the government are forcing upon them, so that's 5 women that are losing their jobs.

Kb - what an absolute idiot! I worked in HR as a temp once - watching porn/phoning sex lines at work was a surprisingly common reason for getting fired. Beaten only by just not turning up.

I'm not sure how they thought they wouldn't get caught.

I hadn't really thought of it before, but here it's been similar to Snuppeline - quite a few men during the earlier part (particularly technical guys) followed quickly on by women in public or caring jobs. Interestingly here, the women have found jobs easier to get again - though they pretty much all went lower on the totem - while the guys have either struggled to find work and/or are deciding to struggle through starting their own businesses since things have collaspsed so much in their areas.

i think the reason that women can find work more easily is because we are more likely to do any job, even really lowly paid jobs with no prospects to get by untill a better job comes along. many men wont, they are used to earning x an hour and would rather be out of work for a short time (often becomes a long time) as they dont want to drop any

Actually OP, I was talking to a friend of mine about this the other day. Not only have most of our friends who have lost their jobs been women, but three of us (including her and I) were made redundant while pregnant. Did make me a bit and that this is happening in 2010/2011.